BS: Stuck in a folk song?

Subject: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 17 May 06 - 04:50 PM

I was just stuck by a worrying co-incidence.....My better half lives on the waterside and it's the merry month of May. Should I ask her to stay in for the next two weeks, or doesn't going to the Lab and the shops count as roving? I don't wan't to end up with a doleful ghost!

Anyone else in dangerously sterotypical situations?

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 May 06 - 07:32 PM

That may be better than

"Stuck in the middle with you"

"Strange days indeed!"

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: michaelr
Date: 17 May 06 - 09:10 PM

As I rode out this morning, all in the month of May, I met ---












wait for it!



















my boss as soon as I got to work. Oh well, no song there... just the same old song and dance, my friend.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:28 AM

Just tell her not to stray carelessly, and avoid jolly sailors. Or at least to keep her hands firmly on all the gold she has in store.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:35 AM

And its a fact, in Nottanum town, not a soul would look up....
they all use 118118

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:42 AM

I saw twa' corbies on my way in to work this morning. Bit ominous if you ask me...

On a lighter note if you ever get chance try to catch Stanley Accrington then ask him to do his song that mentions all the situations you can think of in popular folk song in one seemingly breathless verse - I think the title is something like 'Stuck in folk song' or 'Only in folk song'.

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:36 AM

By-the-by, friends--what breed of bird is a "corbie"??? If it's crows I may be in real trouble. We gottem in Cedar Creek, Texas. Step out of any door and see SEVERAL...             Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 May 06 - 08:48 AM

It is indeed crows, Tanny.

Be afraid.....Be very afraid

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:02 AM

It is indeed a type of crow but in context the corbies refered to in the song will be carrion crows or ravens.

Incidentaly - What is the difference between a crow and a rook? An old saying I heard said a rook on it's own is crow. A crow in a crowd is a rook. Is this the only difference? Crows are solitary while rooks are social?

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:16 AM

I dunno'........Ya' gotta' be prepared for such eventualities. Karen and I have walked for many miles along the banks of the Ohio River and embraced often as we watched the river flow by. I'll be damned but I have never remembered to bring a knife............screwed the whole song up...........'Course my name ain't "Willie" either................I mean like I got one and all but that isn't my name.......I suppose I could "stab" her with my Willie but that'd involve floundering around in the weeds and bushes and possibly getting poison ivy..........or arrested for Indecent Exposure.............Karen is really allergic to Poison Ivy...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:53 AM

who wuld be worst person in a folksong to be..... Jesse James, the elfin Knight, Kevin Barry.?

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Desdemona
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:57 AM

For my part, I try not to let anyone take me anywhere by my lily-white hand, or kiss me cheek and chin; better safe than sorry!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Kaleea
Date: 18 May 06 - 01:28 PM

Oh, Jesse James
had my wife
in the lusty monthe of Maye
when my bonnie lass she smelleth
and the flowers smell
so hand me down my walking cane
so I'll pawn my gold watch & chain
and it's all for me grog




It's just not the same without the audio portion, is it?

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 May 06 - 03:53 PM

Crows have big black beaks like a pickaxe, rooks have a bit of unfeathered skin at the base of a paler beak. See here for a quick guide.

If I'm stuck in a folk song, it's the one where the mother wants to stick penknives in her babby's heid.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 May 06 - 04:39 PM

'Crow' is the generic term for all members of the genus corvidae Hence the name 'corbie,' which they are still called in parts of the Borders and Northumbria. The Carrion Crow is usually the one meant by 'crow' in Britain. I believe the Hooded Crow may be commoner in Ireland. Most 'crows' in North America are the American Crow but here on Vancouver Island our 'crow' is the Northwestern Crow.

Chough
Carrion Crow
Rook
Raven
Jay
Jackdaw
Magpie
Blue Jay
Stellers Jay
Northwestern Crow

others?

But they'll all ha' yer een should yer true love be false.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 18 May 06 - 05:04 PM

He's NEVER....well, maybe the thought of those cro--um--corbies keep him honest?                     Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: melodeonboy
Date: 18 May 06 - 06:50 PM

I was told that rooks can't move diagonally; but I know that crows can!

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 18 May 06 - 06:51 PM

And then there was that couple that were wed like sister and brother.

I believe they're doing time now.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 May 06 - 11:36 PM

You don't have to crow about the extent your Cordvidical Knowledge, BPL...

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 May 06 - 08:19 AM

Five little ducks went swimming one day.
Over the hills and far away......
well, in a car to the Yorkshire gathering actually!
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 19 May 06 - 08:43 AM

Others? Clark's Nutcracker.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 19 May 06 - 08:58 AM

No,
No folk song here,
But I do know a certain person (GWB) that seems to be stuck in a fairytail!

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 19 May 06 - 12:46 PM

Others? Clark's Nutcracker.

Ouch, Bob ... I wouldn't want one of them up me trouser leg ... ;o)

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Kim C
Date: 19 May 06 - 12:53 PM

Bunnahabhain, as long as you're not a house carpenter, it should be okay.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: frogprince
Date: 19 May 06 - 01:19 PM

The last few days around here, it's "Who'll Stop the Rain". For awhile I felt like "All Used Up" by Utah Phillips, but my knees have been much better for some months now.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 May 06 - 04:55 PM

'peel neck John Crow'?

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 May 06 - 06:24 PM

Stuck in a folk song with you!

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 19 May 06 - 09:14 PM

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to be rude about Clark's Whatchamathingiecracker--4 hours 3 minutes. Thank you BPL, but the rest of you must try harder.

Subject: RE: BS: Stuck in a folk song?
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 May 06 - 05:49 AM

Dave the gnome - I heard that saying too (two?)

The easier way to get it the right way round if you suffer from dys-reciprocity, like me, is "Have you ever seen a Rookery"

Now "how about a Crowery"?